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<blockquote data-quote="Gurvir44" data-source="post: 732539" data-attributes="member: 68874"><p>Hello guys and girls, i am new on the forums and i really needed a few questions answered.</p><p></p><p>I will start of by saying i have a Acer Extensa 5420 laptop with windows vista on it, i want to trade for a MacBook Pro (one of my family members). I am really confused on what i should do. The 1st thing is i want to boot camp to vista on the mac, i will buy the c.d (Home premium) and install that, (mac currently has leopard) I want to ask a few things;</p><p>1.) Can i boot to vista or only xp.</p><p>2.) Will anything (viruses etc) affect the mac portion if i get it on vista?</p><p>3.) Will it affect my performance? ( Only vista vs. Mac + Vista)</p><p>4.) Can i use Tune up Utlities (boot/login screen changer) on vista when dual booted?</p><p>5.) How much should i Partition? I Will use mac for surfing, e-mail, photos, videos, and use vista for games, documents e-mail and surfing, some music/photos/video.</p><p></p><p>I really need those answered and the opinion based question is, should i switch?- The acer has a 250 gb hard drive, 1.9 GHz, Ati Radeon HD 24000 XT Hyper memory Graphics card, with a amd 64 x2 processor and 2 gb ram 800MHz bus speed. No blue tooth, no N wireless, (G) and a memory card reader, 4 usbs.</p><p></p><p>The MacBook Pro has a Core 2 duo, 2.13 GHz, 2g ram, ATI,RadeonX1600 ,Bus Speed:667 MHz, Bluetooth, N wireless, no memery card reader, 2 usb. </p><p></p><p>The Acer is fairly new (9 months) but the mac is more older (2 years)</p><p></p><p>Should i trade? I will be using the mac for games (Gears of war etc), word documents, photos, and surfing the web.</p><p></p><p>Can i do what ever i did before on vista on a mac dual booted?</p><p></p><p>Thanks a lot for looking at my questions and answering, sorry if i gave you the head ache of the century!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gurvir44, post: 732539, member: 68874"] Hello guys and girls, i am new on the forums and i really needed a few questions answered. I will start of by saying i have a Acer Extensa 5420 laptop with windows vista on it, i want to trade for a MacBook Pro (one of my family members). I am really confused on what i should do. The 1st thing is i want to boot camp to vista on the mac, i will buy the c.d (Home premium) and install that, (mac currently has leopard) I want to ask a few things; 1.) Can i boot to vista or only xp. 2.) Will anything (viruses etc) affect the mac portion if i get it on vista? 3.) Will it affect my performance? ( Only vista vs. Mac + Vista) 4.) Can i use Tune up Utlities (boot/login screen changer) on vista when dual booted? 5.) How much should i Partition? I Will use mac for surfing, e-mail, photos, videos, and use vista for games, documents e-mail and surfing, some music/photos/video. I really need those answered and the opinion based question is, should i switch?- The acer has a 250 gb hard drive, 1.9 GHz, Ati Radeon HD 24000 XT Hyper memory Graphics card, with a amd 64 x2 processor and 2 gb ram 800MHz bus speed. No blue tooth, no N wireless, (G) and a memory card reader, 4 usbs. The MacBook Pro has a Core 2 duo, 2.13 GHz, 2g ram, ATI,RadeonX1600 ,Bus Speed:667 MHz, Bluetooth, N wireless, no memery card reader, 2 usb. The Acer is fairly new (9 months) but the mac is more older (2 years) Should i trade? I will be using the mac for games (Gears of war etc), word documents, photos, and surfing the web. Can i do what ever i did before on vista on a mac dual booted? Thanks a lot for looking at my questions and answering, sorry if i gave you the head ache of the century! [/QUOTE]
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